Situated in the streets of New York, the French Culinary Institute recognizes that the potential of culinary talent may be abundant but may be scarce in education funds. With this realization, French Culinary Institute Scholarships are now offered to incoming learners who have passed qualifications on academic merit and financial necessity.

Some of the pride of the French Culinary Institute are master chefs like Jacques Pepin, who happens to be one of its distinguished faculty, and Food Network stars like Bobby Flay, who was once a student in the institute and now is a visiting lecturer. The institute has offered six-month syllabus of day courses and a program with nine months duration for night classes. In supplement to this, the French Culinary Institute has been recognized for their offer to have a series of classes focused on the amateur chef. Unprofessional and full-pledged students both have hands-on training at Lcole, the fine dining restaurant of the institute. Without consideration of a students course, each is eligible to submit an application for French Culinary Institute Scholarships. Some qualifications that needs to be met are US citizenship and permanent residency, which of course ranges from a few thousand to more than ten thousand applicants. These grants also include awards for four Restaurant Management Scholarships in the same number of thousands each focused toward those who want to pursue restaurant management careers.

The FCI Military Scholarship, which awards twenty hopefuls with $5,000+ in the previous years, has been intended for students with culinary and pastry arts interests. Eligibility of French Culinary Institute Scholarships in this category is very specific to those who have worked for any branch of the military for at least 30 days. The Societe Philanthropic/ The Friends of the FCI scholarship is one of the very famous grants given by the French Culinary Institute and has, at one time, given a $6,000+ award to a student who wants to enroll in either the Pastry Evening Program or the Culinary Evening Program. The Friends of the FCI Fall Award is the highest grant of the French Culinary Institute. It had given one individual pursuing studies in either Classic Culinary Arts or Classic Pastry Arts and who would be starting the course in either October or November.